Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America

This is a book consisting of articles taken from Ancient America magazine. They center around the subject of whether or not the America's were visited by people before Columbus (not counting those who migrated her and became the Native Americans, Incans, Aztecs, etc.)

The book examines a number of artifacts that have been found in this country, particularly, that can be interpreted as being left from explorers from other countries, well before Columbus ever landed on North American shores. The quality of the artifacts and their importance vary; some could be forgeries; some could be things that were made by nature and just appear to be made by humans; others are harder to dismiss, such as statues, coins, or even skeletons.

The book holds that the orthodox archaeological establishment does not want to admit to anyone being in this country before Columbus (again, other than Native Americans, etc.) The book says that there is evidence that this country was visited by Egyptians, Phoenicians, Black Africans, Chinese and various other peoples from an assorted group of countries.

In recent years, the orthodox community has grudgingly admitted that the Vikings were in North America before Columbus; but this book makes it seem as if a rather large group of visitors had been here before him.

The first problem in this assumption is that none of these individuals or groups are still here. At best, the groups seem to consist of individuals or perhaps groups numbering around twenty or so. None of them established any lasting colonies, indicating that, if they were here, they either died here, or returned to where they came from.

The difference between them and Columbus is that, after Columbus, the explorers ended up becoming settlers, and they stayed here.

The evidence the book presents for earlier visitors seems fairly impressive at times, and a few pieces seem almost undeniable evidence, but scientists can be very, very arrogant in their assurance that they are right and everyone else is wrong (even though there are many times when scientists have been sure they knew just the way things were, and reality slapped them in the face and showed them that things didn't necessarily work they way they had thought.)

I think that this is all going to be an argument for a long, long time, and orthodox academia will not accept the existence of pre-Columbus visitors and settlers until the amount of physical evidence becomes overwhelming.

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